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Celebration was the order of the day Jan 28 as representatives from a dozen not-for-profit organizations gathered at the Calgary Herald to equally share in $1,127,570.43 being total funds raised throughout the 2014 Calgary Herald Christmas Fund campaign. Thanks to the scores of generous citizens who donated to the fund, each of the 12 agencies […]

The horrific event took place more than 20 years ago but it remains etched in people's minds forever.
People in Rwanda are still suffering from the effects of the 1994 genocide and a Calgary foundation is helping them deal with that pain and loss.

This is the third part in a five-part series exploring Calgary’s economy for the coming year. For Calgarians who are struggling to get by, there are fears tumbling oil prices could put them out of a job and leave them homeless, the head of a Calgary non-profit group says. Despite these slumping economic conditions, the most wealthy in the […]

It might be odd to find the spirit of Christmas on a weekend in June, but that’s exactly what happened to me earlier this year. On June 21, Calgarians held our first annual Neighbour Day. At block parties, work bees, parades and barbecues, in every quadrant of our city, we celebrated what makes our communities […]

There truly are Do Gooders all around us. In 2013, we recognized everyday superheroes in our city who gave so much, in a year when so much was lost during the flood. This year, we asked ourselves, ‘What’s at the heart of every superhero?’ We realized it’s not complicated; most of us just want to […]

A non-profit group that provides housing to homeless Calgarians has secured a new source of much-needed revenue from an affordable housing project. The Mustard Seed received approval from city hall to lease underground parking stalls beneath 1010 Centre, a downtown tower offering 224 affordable housing units. The organization was required to build the heated parkade, but […]

A council that sometimes faces hours of community protests over basement suites, child-care facilities or apartment projects received virtually no opposition Monday to the 6,000-home inner-city project to which it gave unanimous approval Monday. The West Campus development, which surrounds Alberta Children’s hospital and directly borders University Heights and Varsity, envisions large clusters of townhouses and higher-density housing, along with retail and 1.5 million square feet of office space that could eventually employ about 10,000 people.

Just days after Calgary band Zackariah and the Prophets released their debut EP last April to a sold-out, high-energy crowd, two of the group’s members were murdered alongside three other students at a Brentwood house party. On Thursday evening, the two remaining members of the funk-rock quartet played the band’s six-song debut EP on stage one final time for an audience of nearly 2,000 as part of an emotional memorial concert honouring Joshua Hunter, Zackariah Rathwell, Lawrence Hong, Jordan Segura and Kaiti Perras at the Jubilee Auditorium.

Communities aren’t built solely on good intentions: organizations that work to help others need donors who will support them. This week the Alberta government released a guide designed to help non-profit groups find suitable partners in the corporate sector and nurture their relationships with them.

Amid a groundswell of support for a memorial fundraising concert that had no home, the University of Calgary’s Students’ Union has backtracked on its decision to reject a request for its venue for the event. Friends had spent months planning a massive fundraiser to honour Zackariah Rathwell, Josh Hunter, Kaitlin Perras, Lawrence Hong and Jordan Segura, who were killed at a Brentwood house party on April 15. Organizers were left scrambling to find a venue for the fall fundraiser after the U of C students’ union declined the group’s application for campus space over concerns about the fundraiser’s “viability.”

Friends of five students murdered at a Calgary house party in April are scrambling to find a large, all-ages venue for a fundraising memorial concert they’ve spent months planning. The event is in jeopardy after the University of Calgary Students’ Union declined the group’s request for space on campus over concerns about the fundraiser’s “viability.”

A perfect warm summer’s day with wind in your hair and the gentle spray of cool water on your face. For many Albertans, a day like this is hard to find, but in the Town of Chestermere, residents enjoy picturesque and active lake living every day.

Two Calgary residents displaced by last summer’s historic flood are preparing to return home. Birch and Aspen, a pair of orphaned baby beavers, will soon be released after spending nearly a year at the Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society.

Deciding what to do for dad’s big day can be a frustrating task each June. eggs Benedict and a new necktie are a lovely gesture, of course, but do they really express the depth of your appreciation for the man responsible for half your DNA? In the end, most fathers would probably be equally happy spending some quality time outdoors with the family.